Máté Balogh

Máté Balogh (born 9 November 1990 in Győr) is a Hungarian composer, performer and assistant professor at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and at the University of Szeged. His works have been performed internationally at contemporary music festivals and concert series in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America, and he has received composition awards in a range of competitions and artistic programmes all over the world. Early life and education Balogh was born in Győr, Hungary, in 1990 and raised up in the industrial town of Dunaújváros, formerly known as Stalin City. He studied composition at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, where he was a student of Zoltán Jeney. During his studies, he spent an academic year at the Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Tartini in Trieste, Italy, studying with Fabio Nieder. He later was the mentee of Péter Eötvös and also attended the masterclasses of György Kurtág, Louis Andriessen, Christian Wolff, Heinz Holliger, Philip Glass and Toshio Hosokawa. Composer’s career His pieces have been performed throughout Europe as well as in China, Japan, Taiwan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Ethiopia, South-Africa, Canada and the United States of Ameri